Destination Design

Live, Work and Play Like a Local at The Student Hotel, Delft

The Student Hotel Delft combines student accommodations with hotel rooms, all designed with circularity principles in mind.

Desa Potato Head Favors Village Vibes Over Resort Exclusivity

Desa Potato Head, comprising a beach club and two hotels, has opened in Seminyak, Bali, just north of the tourist magnet of Kuta.

Aparthotel Svatý Vavrinec Replaces 80s Supermarket in Czech Ski Resort

The Aparthotel Svatý Vav?inec now stands proudly in the place of an 80s supermarker in Pec pod Sn?žkou, just two hours north of Prague.

Art Deco Hotel Imperator Re-Opens in Nîmes After Renovation

Hotel Imperator in Ni?mes, France, reopens after an intensive 20-month renovation project involving hundreds of craftspeople.

Vegan Blow-Out Creme

Arctic Treehouse Hotel’s ‘Cone Cows’ Tread Gently on the Finnish Landscape

The Arctic Treehouse Hotel in Finland's Arctic Circle features 32 cozy, treehouse-like pods decked out with Scandinavian classics.

Amangiri Is a Modernist Oasis in the Painted Desert of Utah

A desert oasis that utilizes shadow and light with concrete geometry softened by an earthen palette and materials from the Utah landscape.

Camille Walala Brings Local Mauritian Color to SALT of Palmar Hotel

Camille Walala breathed live into the SALT of Palmar hotel in Mauritius with a new, Instagram-worthy interior scheme that runs throughout.

Best Destination Design Posts of 2019

We virtually trekked around the globe to some cool design-focused hotels and now we're looking back at the most popular from 2019.

East London’s ‘Vertical Community’: The Stratford

The Stratford hotel and its Allegra restaurant live inside a double-cantilevered 42-story building in East London.

Destination Design: Harmon Guest House

An eco-friendly LEED Gold certified design hotel in the heart of Sonoma County’s wine country.

The Society Hotel Bingen Opens Within the Columbia River Gorge

Private cabins and communal bunks with a Scandi aesthetic make this a delightful, light-filled sanctuary within the Columbia River Gorge.

Alei Merino and Cotton Throw

Sofitel Rome Villa Borghese: French Sensibility in the Italian Capital

Italian “La Dolce Vita” meets French “art de vivre” in an upscale hotel in Rome designed by Jean Philippe Nuel.

Hotel Calimala: Aged Beauty in Florence’s Centro Storico

Lean your head out listen to streets, just as Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli + the Medici family probably did in their life.

Domes of Elounda: Timelessness on Crete, Greece

Greek monsters and mythologies take hold at this Cretian hotel, just a boat ride away from the storied UNESCO heritage site Spinalonga.